[luau] Microsoft's tough tactics...

[Jim McQueeney]

Microsoft playing hardball...

http://www.iht.com/articles/96369.html

> Last summer, Ayala, then the top sales executive at Microsoft Corp.,
> sent an e-mail message titled "Microsoft Confidential" to senior
> managers laying out a strategy to dissuade governments around the
> world from choosing cheaper alternatives to the ubiquitous Windows
> operating system.

...

>  were authorized to draw from a special internal fund to offer the
>  software at a steep discount or even free if necessary.

...

>  "Under NO circumstances lose against Linux," Ayala said.



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